Texas approved funding for a $50bn water plan, but left out a tool that has been growing in popularity among corporations
(First published by Guardian Sustainable Business.)
Texas voters last
For a plan that purports to thoughtfully guide Texas through a more crowded and thirsty future, the 2012 State Water Plan reads unsettlingly like a playbook from the last century:
Greg Harman
Prior to 2007, life in Constance Okollet’s small Ugandan village was tranquil. It was, as she told a gathering at SXSW ECO in Austin on Tuesday, an
Amid crisis of confidence in corporations, ‘The Naked Brand’ argues advertising should focus on transparency
(First published at Guardian Sustainable Business.)
“Traditional advertising, I think, is finished,” Patagonia’s founder
Frio County, Texas, Struggles with Fracking’s Leftovers
(First published at the Texas Observer.)
On a gravel road in rural Frio County, sheriff’s deputies are doing something they never
Greg Harman
An explosion at a San Antonio power plant this week either bolstered the utility’s case for rate hikes to keep up with infrastructure maintenance demands or those
Upcoming and imminent events related to the sustainable path in San Antonio…
Tonight:
Public hearing on CPS Energy’s proposed rate hike
The first in what is likely to be
Carolyn Lochhead opens her recent sprawling indictment of human population growth as the driver of global environmental destabilization with a raft of Texas-specific statistics. Strung together with hardly a verb
The Feds are considering worst-case disaster scenarios. Reporters should too.
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Years ago I had a semi-public disagreement (as much as Twitter snipes can be considered “public”) with another
I haven’t had time to follow up with Elena Craft (right), health scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund’s Austin office, who served to keep a recent air-quality panel
A dozen years since the closing of Kelly Air Force Base, ailing residents and community activists gathered to decry contamination, injustice.
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Victor San Miguel presents a proud and
